{"id":482018,"date":"2026-06-17T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:05:12","slug":"lotto-4-5m-win-might-finally-allow-coromandel-couple-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482018\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto: $4.5m win might finally allow Coromandel couple to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man had his ticket checked at a different store a few days later, but didn\u2019t think his prize would amount to much.<\/p>\n

\"AA Coromandel couple took home a $4.5 million Lotto jackpot earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI scanned it and \u2018major prize\u2019 came up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know there had been a big win in Thames \u2013 so I thought it might be a grand or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

He handed the ticket over to the Lotto operator who told him she had never seen as big a prize in the store before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in total shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me a while to figure out how many zeroes there were.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mind-blowing, and it really is life-changing for us,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

The man was the sole winner of the June 6 Powerball jackpot. <\/p>\n

He drove home to tell his wife about the win and said they struggled to sleep that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m usually a pretty good sleeper but I must have woken up every 15 minutes that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kept picking up the paperwork and telling myself I can feel it in my hands, so it has to be real,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After taking home their winnings, the winner said he and his partner\u2019s future now looks very different.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a bit of a running joke about when I\u2019ll retire, and honestly, I didn\u2019t think it would ever happen – but this win means I can.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man had his ticket checked at a different store a few days later, but didn\u2019t think his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43966,92104,16891,74,4763,22506,8414,9872,42,10506,5978,1132,43,20878,46440,61,40,38,41,39,6027,18457],"class_list":["post-482018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-43966","tag-45m","tag-able","tag-after","tag-allow","tag-coromandel","tag-couple","tag-finally","tag-headlines","tag-lotto","tag-might","tag-million","tag-news","tag-powerball","tag-retire","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-win","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}